Schools
116 open schools are in scope, including 73 primary and 14 secondary schools. Palfrey Infant School is the nearest published school at 97 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS1 4LA
Palfrey & The Delves · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Walsall
- Ward
- Palfrey & The Delves
- Local authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich
- Postcode district
- WS1
- Postcode sector
- WS1 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS1 4LA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS1
- Postcode sector
- WS1 4
- Latitude
- 52.573940
- Longitude
- -1.988324
- British National Grid easting
- 400,888
- British National Grid northing
- 297,345
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Walsall · E08000030
- Electoral ward
- Palfrey & The Delves · E05016444
- Parish or community
- E43000184
- Westminster constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich · E14001562
- Output area
- E00052253
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 034E · E01010343
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 034 · E02002143
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore WS1
Property
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 83, Milton Street, Walsall, WS1 4LA | 28 July 2008 | £200,000 |
| 79, Milton Street, Walsall, WS1 4LA | 28 July 2008 | £100,000 |
| 85, Milton Street, Walsall, WS1 4LA | 28 July 2008 | £100,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 116
- Primary
- 73
- Secondary
- 14
- 97 m
Palfrey Infant School
Academy converter
- 113 m
Palfrey Junior School
Community school
- 271 m
Abu Bakr Al-Ihsaan Academy
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,841
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,625
- Shoplifting 1,011
- Vehicle crime 512
- Public order 459
- Criminal damage and arson 444
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 47
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- WS1 4 residents
- 10,002
20 female, 27 male
Age bands in WS1 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 25.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 19.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.6%
2,617 residents
1,558 residents
3,079 residents
1,984 residents
981 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WS1 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
42
within 5 km
AMBAR MEDICAL CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code Y00228
243 m
PALFREY HEALTH CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code M91621
243 m
BRACE STREET HC- KUMAR
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91628
528 m
BRACE STREET HC- MAHBUB (M91659)
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91659
528 m
BRACE STREET HEALTH CENTRE
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91014
528 m
LITTLE LONDON SURGERY
LITTLE LONDON, CALDMORE, WALSALL, WS1 3EP
ODS code M91008
624 m
PLECK HEALTH CENTRE
16 OXFORD STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9HY
ODS code M91616
659 m
BROADWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
213 BROADWAY, WALSALL, WS1 3HD
ODS code M91619
1.0 km
FORRESTER STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FORRESTER STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9PL
ODS code M91613
1.3 km
SADDLERS HEALTH CENTRE
HATHERTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91018
1.6 km
UMBRELLA MEDICAL
1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91015
1.6 km
BIRCHILLS HEALTH CENTRE
23-37 OLD BIRCHILLS, WALSALL, WS2 8QH
ODS code M91629
2.0 km
TAME VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
FRIAR PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0JS
ODS code M88023
2.2 km
ST PETER'S SURGERY
51 LECKIE ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 8DA
ODS code M91004
2.3 km
THE VILLAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
158A CRANKHALL LANE, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0EB
ODS code M88001
2.4 km
OAKESWELL HEALTH CENTRE
BRUNSWICK PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 9HP
ODS code M88007
2.8 km
DARLASTON MEDICAL CENTRE
BIRMINGHAM STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 9JQ
ODS code M91641
3.0 km
MODALITY KINGFISHER DARLASTON PRACTICE
BENTLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCHILL ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 0BA
ODS code M91028
3.0 km
STROUD PRACTICE
BENTLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCHILL ROAD, BENTLEY, WALSALL, WS2 0BA
ODS code M91614
3.0 km
BEECHDALE CENTRE
EDISON ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 7HS
ODS code M91611
3.2 km
Showing 20 of 42 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bradford Arms
BCT · Palfrey
- 0.0 miles
Bradford Arms
BCT · Palfrey
- 0.1 miles
Whitmore Street
BCT · New Mills
- 0.1 miles
Whitmore Street
BCT · New Mills
- 0.1 miles
Wednesbury Road
BCT · New Mills
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 034E, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,848 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 5
- Low risk addresses
- 9
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
6,841 published events cover 12 months, averaging 570.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,625 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.